Syntax for lincom won't work in Stata 16 but works fine in Stata 15

Hello all. I'm a professor at Baldwin Wallace. On Thursday, I tried to run a lab with my class from Pollock's Stata Companion (Chap...

import data from excel to stata-change the structure of the data

Hi, I have a data file in excel which includes more than 300 firms. Information for each firm include code (for example, LCL SA - highligh...

Separating cumulative data into actuals

Hi all First of all, apologies if I am not able to explain this very well. I am very new to Stata and still struggling with the lingo. E...

Proportion experiencing event under competing-risks regression

Hi, I am looking at the results of a three-arm clinical trial, where a secondary outcome is the occurrence of a specific adverse event. Th...

Combining three byte variables into one

I am currently trying to replicate some of the results of the Charles and Guryan 2008 paper 'Prejudice and wages'. One of the variab...

Why all observations are "on support" on propensity score matching?

Hi I'm doing propensity score matching for reducing selection bias in observational study. There was significant difference between PP...

Mata question on garbled codes in Chinese characters output by PdfDocument()

Dear Listers: I am using PdfDocument() in Stata 14.0 to creat a table with contents in Chinese. Although the Chinese characters stored in t...